Kevin Oppihle's Tech Notes

Recently after Windows 10 updates all of my physical and wireless network devices disappeared. I could not connect even with a new USB to GB network adapter. I tried deleting and reinstalling the drivers to no avail. The devices showed in device manager, however they were not accessible in network and sharing center. The Windows updates would not uninstall as they were now part of the OS. After researching I found that forcing a reset of the network settings appeared to fix the issue. To do so open a command prompt as an administrator and run the following commands: Netcfg -v -u dni_dne Netcfg -d Then restart the system

With normal network maintenance and hardware replacement cycles it is a good idea to keep an eye on the age and other information of the computers on your network. There are lots of third party tools to run more detailed reports, but if you want a quick report why not use PowerShell on Server 2012 and export to a CSV file. Open up PowerShell as an administrator and review the Get-ADComputer commands Get-ADComputer -Filter * Will show you basic AD attributes of the systems: Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Properties * will give you way too much information but shows you all the possible variables you can choose from. Below are some of the more common properties you would likely want to query for reports: Now to run the following command to see the fully qualified computer names, the date and time they were created in AD, along with last logon date and time: Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Properties "DNSHostName","Created","LastLogonDate" |select dnshostname,cr...

So you are using wireless or a physical connection on your Windows 10 system and you want to use one or the other as the default for gateway/WAN traffic routes. Example: I am plugged in at a sites physical connection working on the local network which goes through strict external routing/content rules. Those rules block me from using my remote access programs, Skype voice, Pandora… I enable my wireless and use my Iphone hotspot or other MiFi device, however even though it connects, traffic by default is still (bound) routed to the physical connection. Open Powershell as Administrator and run the following commands to locate your WiFi and Ethernet “ifIndex” (interfaceindex) get-netipinterface Review the results listed and revise the one you want to be the default gateway/WAN traffic routes “InterfaceMetric” to be the lowest number as shown below for the “Wifi” interface 7. The command in the example below is: set-netipinterface -interfaceindex “7” -InterfaceMetric “3” Alternatively,...